This invaluable book provides a quick introduction to the rudiments of perturbative string theory and a detailed introduction to the more current topic of D-brane dynamics. The presentation is very pedagogical, with much of the technical detail streamlined. The rapid but highly coherent introduction to the subject is perhaps what distinguishes this book from other string theory or D-brane books. This second edition includes an additional appendix with solutions to the exercises, thus expanding on some of the technical material and making the book more appealing for use in lecture courses. The material is based on mini-courses delivered by the author at various summer schools in theoretical high energy physics, so its actual level has been appropriately tested.
0 有用 Cure Rhizome 2023-02-07 00:56:03 北京
简洁的入门书
0 有用 TooCold 2016-02-26 17:38:58
这本书能用仅仅一百五十页从bosonic string讲到D-brane的大部分要点，而且能做到self-contained（除了最后一章）！并且有些细节比Polchinski要好，比如superstring的modular invariance和种类的关系；还有给出了一个具体的D-brane EFT的例子。